Because Substack apparently doesn't allow search engines to identify articles there, I'm going to try publishing the introduction here and see what happens.
By waging war on the mullah regime of Iran, we will get either a weakened Iran less able to threaten us, its neighbors, or its people—for a while; or in a perfect world we get a friendly Iran. Getting the latter (call in Plan A) is something we are trying to enable. We are a force multiplier for that objective. But Iranians themselves must be the force that we multiply to actually pull down the mullah regime. ... [CONTINUE READING]

